|
Friday, May 17, 2002Ok. What I've learned this week.... I was blessed, utterly blessed, with my first *real* gig. I wrote, for Neil Gaiman's Official Hrper Collins Website an essay about his comics work, chock filled with details and url's. It was probably the most horrifying experiance thus far. This is not becuase I didn't enjoy myself - I most certainly did, and Julia Bannon, who I'm sort of working for, is absolutely wonderfula nd honorable. This is because: if I fall flat on my face, I do so practically at the feet of my hero, and of several of my friends. And a thousand words....do you know how hard it is to condense a 15 year carrer in 1000 words? With out sounding like < start bored professorial tone> "And Neil Gaiman wrote this thing here and then he...." If I did a good job, then I have a viable clip I can use to get more jobs. I have the good will of a very nice person. I please my favorite author. The world is happy and bright. I sent it off. God, I hope it's good enough. I also need to update my book review page. I'm doing book reviews for Gotta Write Online (where I am also the Fantasy Genre Editor...Go me!> and MostlyFiction.com, as well as the Mid West Book Review. I read City of Bones by Micheal Connely and liked it very much, plus Tales from Earthsea. I was told that the most important thing i can do is get my name out there. I'm working at it. Hmmm...I knew there was something else I wanted to mention. Aha! Yes. Did you know there's a young woman named Cindy Speer who did a couple of reviews for a website called Popmatters? Not me! Not me at all....so I've been going around calling myself Cindy Lynn...and now people are calling me Cindy Lynn, and everythme I see that I feel like I'm in trouble, becuase usually when someone calls me by my whole name, I've just done something wrong.... Permalink Cindy scribed this at 5:46 PM 0 comments |